Comments on: Cloud server shipments to skyrocket in 2012 http://gigaom.com/2012/01/16/cloud-server-shipments-to-skyrocket-in-2012/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:10:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kevin Murphy http://gigaom.com/2012/01/16/cloud-server-shipments-to-skyrocket-in-2012/#comment-798252 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:00:40 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=471073#comment-798252 To Imran’s point – servers are the wrong metric. Actually, any physical unit by itself will greatly obscure the value of cloud related models. It’s more about density of storage, VMs, etc. Infrastructure vendors and technologies such as compression and dedupe will continue to make huge advancements, requiring any growth analysis to take into account much more than physical units shipped.

]]> By: Imran Anwar http://gigaom.com/2012/01/16/cloud-server-shipments-to-skyrocket-in-2012/#comment-797026 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:46:26 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=471073#comment-797026 Even though unit shipments are always an easy and useful metric, I do not think they are the best measure for adoption of the cloud, and gauging cloud computing’s share of server capacity sold. As CPUs get better, virtualization software gets more effective, network latency drops and more applications can effectively be put in the cloud, I strongly believe these metrics will sell cloud’s capabilities short. Instead, more measurement based on virtualized/real units of data processed, or application cycles executed, or other more relevant metrics will be required for effective measurement and analysis of the industry. Thank you.

Imran Anwar
http://icloud.pk

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